Richard Cohen: Lessons from a long campaign - The Washington Post

As (something) of a public service, I now offer my Children’s Guide to the 2012 Elections — or lessons young people can learn from American politics. I offer this in the spirit of bipartisanship for which I am noted and with absolute faith that — eight years of George W. Bush notwithstanding — the people are never wrong. Okay, kiddies, here are the lessons: